It seems incomprehensible to me that drivers continue to find those Gold Coast tram tracks until I recall doing something similar in my 20s when I drove over a blind ledge next a squash club thinking it was a sloped track to the rear parking area. I was embarrassed when some squash players had to come out and lift my car back onto the road.

Stupidest (car) trick I ever pulled was moving an old car for my parents. Should have been easy, but... the brakes were out, and the car was drawn to the deep gully behind their house as inexorably as iron filings are pulled toward a magnet. My stepdad tried to jump into the moving car, which solved exactly nothing. Spotting an old, broken-down lawn tractor, I succeeded in dragging it under the front bumper, which stopped me about 10 feet from the gully's edge.Funny but true: I'd been painting a tractor brown before they'd asked me to move the car, and when they came running up to check on me, they saw the paint smeared on my hands, shirt, and pants, and the car seat. I had to go get the can of paint to prove to them I hadn't shat myself!

I've seen buses get their tops ripped off in movies, but never thought about it happening in real life. We have a double decker bus here in Adelaide now, just the one I think, it does the run from city to Mount Barker and back.I knew that was a cop car even before you said it, the supplementary aerials are a dead giveaway. Silly buggers, hope they gave themselves a ticket.

I really can't imagine how little attention people must be paying to drive onto tracks like that. I wonder if they were busy staring at their satnav screen instead? Satnav's are helpful but not infallible.

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